Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generally optimistic views over the British action and its effects on west and East came from seven of the University's economic experts--men familiar with the problem through work with the Economic Cooperation Administration the University's Russian Research Center, and through general studies in the field of international trade. Of these men, only one was not convinced that devaluation had at least al fair chance of solving Britain's economic woes...
Commented the New York Times: ". . . A familiar brand of double talk . . . Mao and his comrades have not bothered to enlighten the Chinese, or us, on what is democratic about a dictatorship or how those two antithetical words happened to get into one propaganda phrase...
...spite of the sweep of progress, at least one familiar feature of Sever will remain. The signs that read "Emergency Egress Only" are being repainted. In fact, every classroom is to have...
...final speaker, for Yale, was Jim Britt, whose unctuous tones are familiar to those who follow the fortunes of Boston's baseball teams. He told a dirty joke, told a dreadful and moving story about Joe McCarthy, and split an infinitive or three...
...coding box" consists of a six by ton foot panel of over 200 keys, each with a number or mathematical symbol on it, Using the keyboard with its familiar symbols, a mathematician can record on a magnetic tape all the commands the machine needs to solve his problem. Essentially, he "copies" his equations on the keys of the coding machine. When fed into the machine, his commands are then transferred from the magnetic tape to the sequence drum which then controls the operations necessary to solve the problem...